Thread: National Broadband Network (NBN) What do you know?

I have hardly heard a good word for this NBN so far.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I have hardly heard a good word for this NBN so far.

It's good for those that have a need for it but, for most, the old copper network was just fine.

I'm thinking of disconnecting mine. I don't use it enough to warrant the $80/month fee. The little 3G WiFi unit works just fine at $200/year.

We have more than 700 computers connected, often simultaneously, so the NBN is essential.

my telstra DOT nbn connection went live today

24609 down
4727 up

thus far

all went smooth as silk except they tried to charge me an extra $50 a month but that died soon as i asked for a copy of the original voice recording...


/happy so far...

my non nbn results



Last Result:
Download Speed: 2918 kbps (364.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 567 kbps (70.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 24 ms
Jitter: 10 ms
Packet Loss: -1%
31 October 2016 9:54:45 pm AEDT

Don.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I have hardly heard a good word for this NBN so far.

It's been a winner out where I am. Fixed wireless. Faster and a lot more stable than the previous internet which was basically through the mobile phone system in the places where I live that you could get it (I could get it, but not everybody around me could get it). Its nice to be able to do the things with the internet that our urban brothers have enjoyed and taken for granted for so long. Things like Facetime/Skype work properly now, can watch a 2min youtube in 2 mins, pandora, downloads dont take ages and decent data plans are now available etc. Interestingly though, its now cheaper to use mobile phones than the home phone where the mobile you can chat the house down where the home phone is now timed. It also used to cost me about $85/15GB, where now its a lot less for 500GB. Actually, I'm pretty sure my overall combined bill with Telstra reduced with the NBN.

Now been on the NBN LTSS for six months, replacing the NBN ISS.

In comparison, it is faster (25/5 when it works compared to 6/1) but has proved at least so far, to be much less reliable. There are frequent outages, packet loss, and just plain weird faults, such as for more than two months taking 13 hours to start working after switching on. Latency is a little less, and the cost a little is lower. But data limits remain well under 75GB.

John

We have nbn with telstra and their wifi modem and we have issues a couple of times a week. Its good when it works but drops out so often.

I was talking to a friend that lives nearby and he has much less issues, he was saying the two problems with mine is the telstra wifi modems are rubbish and should be replaced with a netgear one or something similar and the other problem is that telstra doesnt hold nbn co responsible for drop outs on their network were other providers do. (Although i cant find any info on this second bit)

Maybe we should start a poll to see if its mainly telstra users with the issues